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Chartered accountant Harold Eastwood, conventionally minded, chances to meet Alec Goodrich on the train, travelling first-class with a third-class ticket.
Alec is a best-selling novelist. He soon finds Harold’s knowledge of income tax allowances useful and when Alec pays a visit to the accountant his wife, Isabel, who yearns for culture and literature, quickly takes up the fantasy to be his mistress. However, not she but Irma, the Austrian barmaid at the tavern, has caught Alec…Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781848548138 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1848548133 |
| Author: | L.P. Hartley |
| Publisher: | John Murray Press |
| Imprint: | John Murray Publishers Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 432 |
| Release Date: | 14 May 2013 |
| Weight: | 304g |
| Dimensions: | 29mm x 131mm x 197mm |
A-Format111 × 178 mm
131 × 197 mm
B-Format130 × 198 mm
C-Format153 × 234 mm
A4210 × 297 mm
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This an utterly enjoyable, undemanding and very English 1955 novel about conventional middle-class people caught up in extraordinary dramas - Daily Mail
This an utterly enjoyable, undemanding and very English 1955 novel about conventional middle-class people caught up in extraordinary dramas - Daily MailAbout The Author
L.P. Hartley
L. P. Hartley (1895-1972) was a British writer, described by Lord David Cecil as ‘One of the most distinguished of modern novelists; and one of the most original’. His best-known work is THE GO-BETWEEN, which was made into a 1970 film. He was awarded the 1947 James Tait Black Memorial Prize. He was awarded the CBE in 1956.
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